Targeted Infusion Grant: Development of a Virtual and Augmented Reality Laboratory for Research and Education at Tennessee State University

有针对性的输注补助金：田纳西州立大学研究和教育虚拟和增强现实实验室的开发

• 批准号: 1036307
• 负责人: S. Keith Hargrove
• 金额: $ 29.96万
• 依托单位: Tennessee State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-15 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1036307&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Targeted; Infusion; Grant; Development; Virtual

The Tennessee State University (TSU) Targeted Infusion Project's state-of-the-art Virtual and Augmented Reality (VAR) Research and Educational Laboratory enhances the Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering curriculum and increases mentored research opportunities for undergraduate students. Deploying VAR as a research and educational vehicle, this laboratory will immerse students in actual engineering-design challenges. The critical demand for modeling, analyzing, and visualizing complex multidimensional data sets creates a need to offer this VAR initiative for training students, and integrate advanced engineering tools in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering to relevant industrial applications and research at TSU. Though VAR has been identified as one of the fourteen grand challenges of engineering by the National Academy of Engineering, unpublished institutional data from recent alumni (1999-2009) reveal no TSU graduates applied to VAR graduate programs or were employed by industries specializing in VAR technologies. This pattern contributes to the under-representation of African Americans in the VAR workforce and in competitive VAR graduate programs. The objectives of this proposal are to: 1) Develop a Virtual and Augmented Reality Laboratory for academic training to integrate research and educational modules in the Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering programs; 2) Prepare globally competitive engineers by equipping TSU's engineering students with knowledge and understanding of critical engineering concepts and VAR technologies which are required to solve practical engineering design challenges in tomorrow's workforce and competitive graduate engineering programs; and 3) Enhance infrastructure and promote sustainability by increasing the synergy with TSU's two federally funded successful programs (HBCU-UP Implementation and LS-TLSAMP) which are focused on STEM student achievement.

田纳西州立大学（TSU）目标输液项目的最先进的虚拟和增强现实（VAR）研究和教育实验室增强了电气工程和机械工程课程，并增加了本科生的指导研究机会。将VAR作为研究和教育工具，该实验室将使学生沉浸在实际的工程设计挑战中。对复杂多维数据集的建模、分析和可视化的关键需求创造了为培训学生提供VAR计划的需求，并将电气和机械工程中的先进工程工具集成到TSU的相关工业应用和研究中。尽管VAR已被美国国家工程院确定为工程领域的14大挑战之一，但未公布的近期校友（1999-2009）的机构数据显示，没有TSU毕业生申请VAR研究生课程，也没有被专门从事VAR技术的行业雇用。这种模式导致了非裔美国人在VAR劳动力和竞争激烈的VAR研究生项目中的代表性不足。本提案的目标是：1)开发一个用于学术培训的虚拟和增强现实实验室，以整合电气工程和机械工程课程的研究和教育模块；2)培养具有全球竞争力的工程师，让TSU的工程专业学生掌握关键工程概念和VAR技术的知识和理解，这些知识和理解是解决未来劳动力和竞争性研究生工程项目中实际工程设计挑战所必需的；3)通过加强与托国立两个联邦资助的成功项目（HBCU-UP实施和LS-TLSAMP）的协同作用，加强基础设施和促进可持续性，这两个项目专注于STEM学生的成就。